Folk Week means that the town will be overrun with morris dancers, musicians and lots of people with beards for the next seven days. It's always good fun and there's lots to see and do. I'm even planning a bit of time away from the drawing board myself.

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I never get to Broadstairs on account of it clashing with the Sidmouth Folk Festival, but what these morris dancers have never realised is that you don't need to get dressed up in all that gear to do yer serious drinking. It works just as well without.

I know someone who was thrown out of a posh tearoom in Sidmouth after an 'afternoon tea with scones and jam' got out of hand. I've yet to find out the precise details.

The costumes are so very white too, and hence prone to beer spillage! Mind you we see a lot of the more off-the-wall morris men here too, dressed in black and green rags with sinister face masks, and the like. (Bet the masks make the drinking even harder ...)

The tearoom story sounds like that great scene from Withnail and I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6LhZJdCQY

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